West's geopolitical 'grab policy' destabilizes intl situation - Lavrov tells Interfax
MOSCOW. Dec 29 (Interfax) - Western countries are preparing to grab geopolitical space in the east, which leads to international destabilization, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"The refusal of Western nations to begin the formation of an equal and indivisible security system in the Euro-Atlantic [region], their course towards a creeping grab of geopolitical space in the east and the division of states into "friends" and "foes" seriously destabilizes the situation on the international scene," Lavrov said in an interview with Interfax.
The state coup and armed seizure of power in Ukraine supported by the United States and a number of EU countries and the illegal sanctions unilaterally imposed on Russia have seriously complicated relations between Moscow and Western states, the minister said.
"These developments are a logical consequence of major systemic problems which have piled up since the end of the Cold War, such as the stubborn wish of "the historical West" to retain its dominance in global affairs at any cost and to reverse the objective process of the formation of a new polycentric world order," the Russian foreign minister stated.